The Polar Blog

About "The Polar Blog"

A regular blog on polar issues and research presented by Canadian Geographic and Polar Knowledge Canada, a Government of Canada agency with a mandate to advance Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic

Jean-Sébastien Moore of Université Laval shows a Cambridge Bay youth how to remove otoliths, a pair of earbones found in fish, which allow researchers to tell the age of the char. (Photo: Jean-Sébastien Moore)

Mike Jaypoody (left) records an interview on the land with Aisa Piungituq, an elder from Clyde River, Nunavut, as part of including his knowledge of the region’s place-names in the atlas. (Photo: Robert Kautuk)

A herd of muskox on Victoria Island. Researchers are studying these animals and drawing on the knowledge of local Inuit to determine why muskox populations have been dropping. (Photo: Johann Wagner/Polar Knowledge Canada)

Once a common sight in the boreal Yukon, kestrels had disappeared from the territory by 2007. In recent years, researchers and birders have been seeing the small bird of prey once again. (Photo: Yukon College)